thread: 2005-05-16 : Violence
On 2005-05-18, Ben Lehman wrote:
Chris: Get a god-damn dictionary. Look up the definitions of those words you are so casually flinging around. Violence, as a word, is tied to violation, abuse, and misconduct. Aggression is necessarily the action of iniating violence, or is at least highly hostile.
"Violence" and "aggression" and "force" and "assertiveness" are not synonyms. Please stop trying to pretend that they are.
Thanks.
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—Ben
